Kano State Government Arrests Electrician Among Fake Doctors Operating Over 100 Hospitals, Pharmacies

An electrician has been discovered among the fake medical doctors operating over 100 hospitals and pharmacies in Kano State who were recently arrested by officials.

The unnamed electrician operates an eight-bed hospital that claimed to treat different illnesses. His facility was discovered alongside 129 others during an investigation by a committee inaugurated by Ahmad Tijjani Matata, Chairman, Tudun Wada local council.

Among the fake doctors, only one holds a secondary school certificate, according to the committee.

The chairman of the committee, Abubakar Musa Karafe said the investigation followed a series of complaints received from residents over the proliferation of private hospitals and pharmacies in their various communities.

Karafe said that one of the fake doctors infused HIV-positive blood in a woman who was suffering from malaria.

“It is disheartening that we even found an electrical engineer operating a private hospital and attending to patients; prescribing drugs, administering drips, blood and even attending to pregnant women. One of them even added HIV-positive blood to one woman.

“We even found one who is a traditional medicine vendor, but he admitted cholera patients. We had to evacuate them to the hospital for proper treatment. Most of them don’t even have basic knowledge about health.

“One of them said he was a nurse, and later we discovered he only has a secondary school leaving certificate," Karafe said.

-sahara reporters